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Cybercrime group steals millions from Russian banks and targets US

This is actually quite interesting, hackers that are successful insideRussia, as normally these guys are shut down by the FSB in a heartbeat. It must be that they are outside of the direct reach of the Russian security services, pointing to places like Romania, Estonia or even further away like for instance a Russian cybercrime ring in Israel. These guys play a very high-stakes game including their lives. Cyber security researchers from Dutch security firm Fox-IT and Russian firm Group-IB called this group Anunak, named after the main trojanthey use in their malware toolkit.This very sophisticated gang of cybercriminals has successfully grabbedover $25 million by hacking into quite a few financial institutionsin Russia and former Soviet Union satellite states, but also into POS systems of European and U.S. retailers. As you know, there is no place were more furious innovation occurs than in cybercrime. Most cyber mafias target the banks' customers,but this Anunak group...(continued)